Los Angeles:
Sacha Baron Cohen has won hisbattle with the Academy to attend the mega award functiondressed as the character from his upcoming film Dictator.
The 40-year-old actor was earlier banned from attendingthe red carpet event in the dictactor regalia as the Academydid not want the award ceremony to become a publicity eventfor the actor's upcoming film.
The Academy finally changed its stance and allowed theactor to walk the red carpet as his alter ego Admiral GeneralShabazz Aladeen.
Cohen, who had released a spoof video warning the Academyof "unimaginable consequences" if he was banned from the Oscarred carpet, announced his victory on Twitter.
"VICTORY!" Just hours earlier, Oscar producer BrianGrazer told Extra: "We're thrilled to have him and he'll be onthe red carpet dressed as The Dictator," Cohen tweeted.
Cohen dressed up as the military leader to show his Oscartickets in one hand and a golden gun in another.
The 40-year-old actor was earlier banned from attendingthe red carpet event in the dictactor regalia as the Academydid not want the award ceremony to become a publicity eventfor the actor's upcoming film.
The Academy finally changed its stance and allowed theactor to walk the red carpet as his alter ego Admiral GeneralShabazz Aladeen.
Cohen, who had released a spoof video warning the Academyof "unimaginable consequences" if he was banned from the Oscarred carpet, announced his victory on Twitter.
"VICTORY!" Just hours earlier, Oscar producer BrianGrazer told Extra: "We're thrilled to have him and he'll be onthe red carpet dressed as The Dictator," Cohen tweeted.
Cohen dressed up as the military leader to show his Oscartickets in one hand and a golden gun in another.
